As snowkiting continues to gather momentum worldwide, new locations are being discovered, but to date, few compare with the vast terrain in southwest Alaska. Kiteboarding magazine editor Aaron Sales teamed up with photographer Richard Hallman and Best team rider Jacob Buzianis to explore thousands of square miles of snowkite terrain by ski plane with Chaplin Air.

“The plane allowed us to look for mountainous terrain that we weren’t even sure if it was possible to ride,” Sales explains. “When we saw what we were looking for, the plane would land and off we’d go. In Alaska the mountains are steeper, there are crevasses, and if anything were to go wrong, we were still a hundred miles from Anchorage.”

But thanks to five straight days of wind and sunshine, the crew scored endless powder in virgin terrain for a trip of a lifetime. If this looks like something you may want to try, don’t worry — Alaska has plenty of terrain yet to be ridden.

Boosting with Boese

Kristin Boese organises kite Boarding clinics for female kiteboarders!

Eight time world kiteboarding champion and sports model Boese reaches out to girls around the world to sharpen their skills and learn some new riding tricks.

TAMPA/LONDON/PERTH, Dec. 1 – World champion kite-boarding pro Kristin Boese is launching her first world-wide KB4girls kite-boarding tour and looking to etch her indelible mark in this rapidly growing exciting water sport.

Kristin has passionately organized and run a total of 16 girls’ clinics around the world in the past 7 years neither for profit or promotion and even with her own funding just out of passion. But the popularity and interest caught fire and now there is a demand to take the clinics to the next level.